Paul Cézanne

Baigneuses devant  la montagne Sainte – Victoire, around 1870
Oil on canvas
12.9 x 15.7 in. (33 x 40 cm)

Provenance

Docteur Paul Gachet, Auvers [?-1909]; sold by Paul Gachet fils before 1959
Ambroise Vollard (?)
WildensteinGalleries, Paris and New York
Jacques Dubourg, Paris; sale, Chapelle et Martin, Versailles, December 12, 1959, no. 60; sale, Floralies, Versailles, June 2, 1982, no. 45; coll. part, Paris
Jacques Dubourg, Paris
European private collection
Jean-Claude Bellier, Paris

Exhibition

  • Paul Cézanne, Die Badenden, Kunstmuseum Basel, September 10 – December 10, 1989, reproduced in color on catalog page 110.
  • Paul Cézanne, Kunsthalle Tübingen, January 16 – May 2, 1993, reproduced in color on page 67 of the catalog, described on page 66, no. 10.
  • Un ami de Cézanne et Van Gogh: Le Docteur Gachet : Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais, January 28-April 26, 1999; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 17-August 15, 1999; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, September 24-December 5, 1999, catalog page 246.
  • Cézanne and Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, September 11-December 19 1999 ; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, January 5-March 12 2000, no. 6 page 23.
  • Au fil de l’eau, Cézanne, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, June 17 – September 15, 2000, catalog no. 6 page 38.
  • Cézanne en Provence, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, January 29-May 7, 2006; Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, June 9-September 17, 2006 (non-catalog, shown only in France).
  • Cézanne et les maîtres. Rêve d’Italie, Musée Marmottan Monet, February 27 – July 05, 2020

Bibliography

  • Not in Venturi; Gachet fils, in Cherpin, 1972, p. 12 (probably the « Baigneuses » described as having been painted at Dr. Cachet’s home).
  • Cézanne, a biography, John Rewald, 1986, reproduced in color on page 87.
  • Cézanne, les années de jeunesse/Cézanne, the early paintings, exhibition catalog for the Royal Academy of Art, Musée d’Orsay and National Gallery of Art, 1988 – 1989, reproduced in black and white on page 43 of the catalog, described on pages 43, 47, 48, 49, 50.
    Cézanne Gemälde, Götz Adriani, reproduced in color on page 67.
  • The paintings of Paul Cézanne, a catalog Raisonné, John Rewald, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warnan, Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York, 1996, vol. I, n°159, page 132, and reproduced vol. II, page 54, no. 159.
  • The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné, FWN 903